Roundup of Food Blog Posts I’ve Enjoyed #11

I’ve been building up this batch of links a while now. These are food blog posts I’ve come across and considered gorgeous, interesting, inspiring, and overall well worth saving and sharing with the rest of you. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.

The photo above, well, that’s me. (Dave took the photo.) I started boxing about 6 weeks ago, and after a month they finally made me buy my own gloves. Boxing has been wonderful fun – it’s a great workout, and an interesting skill to learn. Not to mention a good way to work out aggression.

I was actually at a deposition earlier this week where my opposing counsel turned out to be another female attorney who loves to box. We resisted the urge to gamble the outcome of the case on a boxing match between the two of us, though.

Anyway, onto the food!

Deinin at Cloudberry Quark describes her Cabbage & Onion Stew as “a brown, sweetish mush that looks terrible.” Now, maybe that’s true, but it sounds like the sort of food my Hungarian grandmother would have served to me as a child, if only adding in cauliflower had occurred to her at the time. When winter comes, I’ll make this to help get me through.

Diner Girl at French Laundry at Home made Cream of Walnut Soup. Now, I don’t really eat nuts (it’s a texture thing) or cream-of-anything soups (ditto), but this still made my jaw drop. I want to serve it with chocolate cake. Now.

I’m still putting off eating winter squash until it’s absolutely necessary, since I’m just not ready to admit that summer is over yet. Still, Michelle at Oswego Tea‘s Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash is an awfully good argument for starting winter squash season up again.

I was completely blown away by the thought of Pork Belly in Almond Milk, which I discovered over at Chubby Hubby. The post also features one of the sexiest photos involving pork that I have ever seen. Go take a look for yourself.

When Dave started obsessing over horchata, I had to google around to find a recipe for him. We ended up using a Horchata recipe from Josh at The Food Section, and it turned out great!

Thanks so much for the mention. I’m thrilled that my stuffed squash has tempted you. I’ve been lurking around your blog for ages, so it was a nice surprise to see my post on your list. And how about that Cupcake Bakeshop. Yowsas!

I have hundreds of pounds/feet of cookbooks. Many are eastern, Indian, Vietnamese etc. I look through the ingredients and wonder what they taste like, as they’re not too available in our backwater midwest area. While in Parsippany NJ a few weeks ago, we stumbled upon an unbelievably crowded Indian grocery with literally everything I’ve ever heard about, many fresh. It was hard not to buy armloads of ingredients, for fear of fumigating the car in summer heat, or wilting precious fruit, leaves etc. When we go to Chicago next to see the grandkids, methinks it calls for a trip to Devon Ave, home to hundreds of similar outfits. This time, it’ll be cold, and I won’t be so concerned about what the car smells like.
But no durians, now or ever.